The assertion is hard to ignore: “There is a poison in the tap water.” Those words and a picture of a faucet with a skull and crossbones were in a flyer about fluoride that Mt. Clemens officials found posted in the city during the debate over whether to continue adding fluoride to the city’s drinking […]
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Pipe Dreams: America’s Fluoride Controversy
How did a seemingly benign chemical and a near-miraculous public-health initiative spark decades and decades debate? Grand Rapids schoolchildren giving saliva samples as part of the city’s water fluoridation project. National Library of Medicine The fluoridation era dawned sleepily enough in America. On the afternoon of January 25, 1945, municipal workers at the Grand Rapids, […]
Port Angeles and Forks: Judge tosses water fluoride lawsuit against Port Angeles, Forks
A lawsuit seeking to stop the use of fluoride in the drinking water in Port Angeles and Forks has been dismissed. Jefferson County Superior Court Judge Craddock Verser dismissed the case Friday on the grounds that fluoride cannot be considered a prescription drug when used in a public water supply. Forks Mayor Bryon Monohon said […]
Documents prove dentists controlled CDC stance on water fluoridation
EXCERPT: ATLANTA (CBS ATLANTA) – Opponents of water fluoridation say they have evidence that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has failed to consider its potentially harmful whole-body health effects. …Opponents wonder what else fluoride is doing to rest our bodies. And now, questions have been raised about conflicts of interest within the […]
Another King family member speaks out as Fluoridegate scandal builds in Atlanta
Ellijay, GA – Swirling questions about conflicts of interest and improper influence grew rapidly today as Freedom of Information Act documents showed that since the 1970s, dental health professionals alone in the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) have controlled the agency’s stance supporting water fluoridation. A response to a request for the names and job […]
Dunedin: Budget concerns behind proposal to eliminate fluoride from Dunedin’s water
DUNEDIN — Twenty years after the city controversially added fluoride to drinking water, budget planners are studying whether it makes sense to eliminate the additive as a way to cut costs. If the city doesn’t put fluoride in the water anymore, it can save the $13,000 annual expense for the fluoride and also avoid spending […]
Florida: Piney Point phosphate plant. 1966-2011: A Retrospective
MANATEE COUNTY — As investigators continue to attempt to reconstruct exactly what happened that caused the leaks atop lined gypsum stacks at Piney Point, we take a look at the long and troubled history of the abandoned phosphate mine that has plagued the local ecosystem for decades. 1966– Borden Chemical Company constructs Piney Point phosphate […]
New evidence confirms dentists controlled statements by CDC on fluoridation toxicity concerns
Ellijay, GA – Swirling questions about conflicts of interest and improper influence grew rapidly today as Freedom of Information Act documents showed that since the 1970s, dental health professionals alone in the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) have controlled the agency’s stance supporting water fluoridation. A response to a request for the names and job […]
Midland continues to contain fluoride above the acceptable levels
A recently released report on Midland’s water quality during 2010 shows it continues to contain fluoride above the acceptable levels. Those levels apply only to water taken directly from the Paul Davis Well Field pipeline and not to water that’s provided from the city’s water plant, said Danny Presley, engineering technician at the Utilities Department. […]
New Study: Fluoride Can Damage the Brain – Avoid Use in Children
NEW YORK, June 21, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — “The prolonged ingestion of fluoride may cause significant damage to health and particularly to the nervous system,” concludes a review of studies by researchers Valdez-Jimenez, et al. published in Neurologia (June 2011), reports New York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation, Inc. (NYSCOF). The research team reports, “It is […]